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Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State Opposition, decolonisation, and majority rights

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Full Title

Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State Opposition, decolonisation, and majority rights

Author(s)

Jason Knirck

Edition
ISBN

9781526166265, 9781526166272, 9781526166289

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The Irish revolutionaries’ attempts to create a Gaelic, postcolonial state involved resolving tension between these two ideas. Smaller economically-driven parties such as the Labour and Farmers’ parties attempted to move on from the revolution’s unnatural focus on nationalist political issues while the larger revolutionary parties descended from Sinn Féin attempt to recreate or restore notions of revolutionary unity. This conflict made democracy and opposition hard to establish in the Irish Free State.